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Froyo ap2sd card

don't you need to create a partition on you're sd card ext 3 or have i been reading things wrong? ^^

sorry if its not much help mate..
 
ok i think i could help here as just did it myself (however credit goes to all other people who helped me):
to Crist and guys at XDA for this (this one with official Froyo and no root needed):
how to save apps on SD CARD:

if u can complete the following steps u can then save most of your apps to the sd card .
i am able to now move most of my apps to the sd card .
its easy



I just spent an hour figuring this out.
-Go here
--http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
and get the SDK for your OS
-Once you download it, unzip it to its own folder, I put it off C:\
-Run the SDK Setup.exe
-Click available Packages, on left, install all the packages for froyo 2.2. Although I do suspect that we only need the USB driver, which is at the very bottom.
It will take forever to install.
After it's done installing, I Clicked on Installed Packages, and update all.

Not done yet.
check that the phone is set up to allow debugging via USB (Settings⇒Applications⇒Devel­opment⇒USB debugging)
Plug in your phone
Windows will fail to install the driver.
Go in device manager and and update the newly Yellowed entry, the driver is in:
C:\android-sdk_r06-windows\android-sdk-windows\u­sb_driver or your original downloaded location
The driver should install


then open command prompt in windows .(type cmd in run line or click start and look for run )
and type
cd C:\android-sdk_r06-windows\android-sdk-windows\t­ools or where ever your original sdk is unzipped .

and then type


> adb devices


if you see a serial number starting with an "H" that means you got things working, now do the following:


> adb shell pm setInstallLocation 2


This command will push ALL apps to your sd card .
you will see that the button for move to sd card will now not be grayed out and u will be able to move apps now to sd card .


to reverse the above type


> adb shell pm setInstallLocation 0


just did everything myself and it really does work (how incredible is that). had 7mb left of free space and now after moving some games and apps to sd card i have nearly 50mb (yuhhooo). however not all apps like being on sd (handscent sms) so moved it back to internal memory :) so check apps as you move them to sd card if they work properly,ok?
and when you do enter adb commands please just copy them from here and paste otherwise can make spelling mistake and won't work. moreover when you enter command enabling apps2sd button to be active the command wont give any confirmation or error so just check your phone if it's working.
another tip if you;re tired of entering commands just copy cmd.exe from original windows system folder and paste it to your sdk folder and into tools folder and run it from there so will save yourself a bit of typing and nerves :)
good luck
and thanx HTC for Froyo
 
uhh another thing sdk might be misbehaving and giving errors while installing just copy the error url address and paste into google search and it will give you and answer something to do with either choosing forcing something (cant remember where and what i pressed) or changing from https to http
just search for it as sorry i closed that window and it's a bit late so need to crash to bed hehe :)
 
one more thing no partitions needed and froyo will create folder on your SD card called Android secure where it stores all the apps data that went to SD cards.
 
162 views and no replies if it worked or not or if anyone had any issues? or you all can move apps to sd without this workaround?
 
gie62001 said:
one more thing no partitions needed and froyo will create folder on your SD card called Android secure where it stores all the apps data that went to SD cards.
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well i have got to the step where i have to open device manager and it says my phone is detected and i missing something ?
 
its ok if its detected then just go to step where you do adb devices and see if it recognises your phone
i wrote before its for non rooted official update
 
gie62001 said:
its ok if its detected then just go to step where you do adb devices and see if it recognises your phone
i wrote before its for non rooted official update
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i am typeing in the commands u have giving me and i keep gettign a message saying is not recognized :S i have a rooted phone with the official update on btw
 
but did you loose root? or you still have it?
it maybe that the drivers are not recognised correctly and did you tick debugging mode? and only then plug in the phone to your pc and don't select any of the options on the phone (charhing,pc, etc...)
 
gie62001 said:
but did you loose root? or you still have it?
it maybe that the drivers are not recognised correctly and did you tick debugging mode? and only then plug in the phone to your pc and don't select any of the options on the phone (charhing,pc, etc...)
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i still have the root options and i did not click nothing when i put the cable in and ye i have got it set to debugging just dont seem to want to take any of my commands . i dont all that u have said so far i get to the commands and type what u have said to type and nothing happens :S
 
any one else have any ideas as i got froyo 2.2 but cant move any of the apps to sd card :( it dose not even give me a option to do so i dont want to go back to stock is there a video out of how to do this HELPPPPPPPPPP please ??? btw i just put the rom on to sd card and the new radio do i have to wipe the card to get ap2sd card working or is there a software u have to put on to get it working
 
gie62001 said:
ok i think i could help here as just did it myself (however credit goes to all other people who helped me):
to Crist and guys at XDA for this (this one with official Froyo and no root needed):
how to save apps on SD CARD:

if u can complete the following steps u can then save most of your apps to the sd card .
i am able to now move most of my apps to the sd card .
its easy



I just spent an hour figuring this out.
-Go here
--http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
and get the SDK for your OS
-Once you download it, unzip it to its own folder, I put it off C:\
-Run the SDK Setup.exe
-Click available Packages, on left, install all the packages for froyo 2.2. Although I do suspect that we only need the USB driver, which is at the very bottom.
It will take forever to install.
After it's done installing, I Clicked on Installed Packages, and update all.

Not done yet.
check that the phone is set up to allow debugging via USB (Settings⇒Applications⇒Devel­opment⇒USB debugging)
Plug in your phone
Windows will fail to install the driver.
Go in device manager and and update the newly Yellowed entry, the driver is in:
C:\android-sdk_r06-windows\android-sdk-windows\u­sb_driver or your original downloaded location
The driver should install


then open command prompt in windows .(type cmd in run line or click start and look for run )
and type
cd C:\android-sdk_r06-windows\android-sdk-windows\t­ools or where ever your original sdk is unzipped .

and then type


> adb devices


if you see a serial number starting with an "H" that means you got things working, now do the following:


> adb shell pm setInstallLocation 2


This command will push ALL apps to your sd card .
you will see that the button for move to sd card will now not be grayed out and u will be able to move apps now to sd card .


to reverse the above type


> adb shell pm setInstallLocation 0


just did everything myself and it really does work (how incredible is that). had 7mb left of free space and now after moving some games and apps to sd card i have nearly 50mb (yuhhooo). however not all apps like being on sd (handscent sms) so moved it back to internal memory :) so check apps as you move them to sd card if they work properly,ok?
and when you do enter adb commands please just copy them from here and paste otherwise can make spelling mistake and won't work. moreover when you enter command enabling apps2sd button to be active the command wont give any confirmation or error so just check your phone if it's working.
another tip if you;re tired of entering commands just copy cmd.exe from original windows system folder and paste it to your sdk folder and into tools folder and run it from there so will save yourself a bit of typing and nerves :)
good luck
and thanx HTC for Froyo
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I tried this at the weekend. Worked with most of my apps, some are not able to be moved to the SD card, but most are. I had trouble loading the drivers at first,had to remove the HTC Sync drivers first. Then no trouble.
Thanks to all who worked this out.
:)
 
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